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O Love Divine! That stoop'st to share

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 274 hymnals Topics: God The Lord Jesus Christ - His Living Presence, Sympathy, and Intercession; The Life in Christ Trust and Submission Used With Tune: ST. ALKMUND

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HAMBURG

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 930 hymnals Tune Sources: Gregorian Chant Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11232 34323 33343 Used With Text: O love divine, that stooped to share

ABENDS

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 181 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Herbert S. Oakley Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 51766 43223 45176 Used With Text: O Love Divine

EISENACH

Appears in 286 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630); Johann Sebastian Bach Incipit: 13455 43256 71766 Used With Text: O Love Divine! that stoop'st to share

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O Love divine, that stooped to share

Author: O. W. Holmes Hymnal: The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 #627 (1894) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 O Love divine, that stooped to share Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear! On Thee we cast each earth-born care; We smile at pain while Thou art near. 2 Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near. 3 When drooping pleasure turns to grief, And trembling faith is changed to fear, The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf, Shall softly tell us, Thou art near. 4 On Thee we fling our burdening woe, O Love divine, forever dear! Content to suffer, while we know, Living and dying, Thou art near. Amen. Topics: Burial of the Dead; For the Sick and Afflicted; Love Of God Languages: English Tune Title: [O Love divine, that stooped to share]

O Love Divine that Stooped to Share

Author: O. W. Holmes Hymnal: Songs of the Christian Centuries #93 (1907) Languages: English Tune Title: [O love divine that stooped to share]

O Love Divine, that Stooped to Share

Author: O. W. Holmes Hymnal: The Children's Hymnal #191 (1918) Languages: English Tune Title: [O Love divine, that stooped to share]

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George J. Elvey

1816 - 1893 Composer of "ST. CRISPIN" in The Hymnbook George Job Elvey (b. Canterbury, England, 1816; d. Windlesham, Surrey, England, 1893) As a young boy, Elvey was a chorister in Canterbury Cathedral. Living and studying with his brother Stephen, he was educated at Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music. At age nineteen Elvey became organist and master of the boys' choir at St. George Chapel, Windsor, where he remained until his retirement in 1882. He was frequently called upon to provide music for royal ceremonies such as Princess Louise's wedding in 1871 (after which he was knighted). Elvey also composed hymn tunes, anthems, oratorios, and service music. Bert Polman

Thomas B. Southgate

1814 - 1868 Person Name: Thomas Bishop Southgate Composer of "BROOKFIELD" in Hymns of the Living Church Southgate, Thomas Bishop, born at Hornsey, Middlesex, June 8, 1814; educated in the school of the Chapel Royal, where he was a chorister; studied harmony under Thomas Attwood and Sir John Goss, and the organ under Samuel Wesley; organist of Hornsey Church from 1834 to 1853, and of St Anne's, Highgate Rise, London, from the latter year until his death, which occured at Highgate, November 3, 1868. EVENSONG, No. 320 F.C.H., was published in sheet form in 1858, set to the words "God that madest earth and heaven." --James Love, Scottish Church Music: Its Composers and Sources (1891)

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 - 1827 Person Name: Beethoven Composer of "ETHELBERG" in New Manual of Praise A giant in the history of music, Ludwig van Beethoven (b. Bonn, Germany, 1770; d. Vienna, Austria, 1827) progressed from early musical promise to worldwide, lasting fame. By the age of fourteen he was an accomplished viola and organ player, but he became famous primarily because of his compositions, including nine symphonies, eleven overtures, thirty piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, the Mass in C, and the Missa Solemnis. He wrote no music for congregational use, but various arrangers adapted some of his musical themes as hymn tunes; the most famous of these is ODE TO JOY from the Ninth Symphony. Although it would appear that the great calamity of Beethoven's life was his loss of hearing, which turned to total deafness during the last decade of his life, he composed his greatest works during this period. Bert Polman

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